TEST CLAUSE INFO

Gist

cache MUST update cached Warning headers when receiving a validation response

Requirements

This test clause tests the following 6 requirement(s).

1. "The first digit indicates whether the Warning MUST or MUST NOT be deleted from a stored cache entry after a successful revalidation" (rfc2616)
2. "1xx Warnings that describe the freshness or revalidation status of the response, and so MUST be deleted after a successful revalidation" (rfc2616)
3. "2xx Warnings that describe some aspect of the entity body or entity headers that is not rectified by a revalidation (for example, a lossy compression of the entity bodies) and which MUST NOT be deleted after a successful revalidation" (rfc2616)
4. "The end-to-end headers stored in the cache entry are used for the constructed response, except that ... any stored Warning headers with warn-code 1xx (see section 14.46) MUST be deleted from the cache entry and the forwarded response" (rfc2616)
5. "The end-to-end headers stored in the cache entry are used for the constructed response, except that ... any stored Warning headers with warn-code 2xx MUST be retained in the cache entry and the forwarded response" (rfc2616)
6. "It MUST then add any Warning headers received in the validating response" (rfc2616)

Developer notes

Note that 1xx and 2xx Warnings must be treated differently.

Members

This test clause contains the following 11 members:

• cache MUST update cached Warning headers when receiving a If-None-Match validation response; updating 1 1xx and 0 2xx simple Warning header(s) (test_case/rfc2616/validationUpdates-Warning-ifNoneMatch-simple-1-0)
• cache MUST update cached Warning headers when receiving a If-None-Match validation response; updating 5 1xx and 0 2xx simple Warning header(s) (test_case/rfc2616/validationUpdates-Warning-ifNoneMatch-simple-5-0)
• cache MUST update cached Warning headers when receiving a If-None-Match validation response; updating 0 1xx and 1 2xx simple Warning header(s) (test_case/rfc2616/validationUpdates-Warning-ifNoneMatch-simple-0-1)
• cache MUST update cached Warning headers when receiving a If-None-Match validation response; updating 0 1xx and 5 2xx simple Warning header(s) (test_case/rfc2616/validationUpdates-Warning-ifNoneMatch-simple-0-5)
• cache MUST update cached Warning headers when receiving a If-None-Match validation response; updating 3 1xx and 3 2xx simple Warning header(s) (test_case/rfc2616/validationUpdates-Warning-ifNoneMatch-simple-3-3)
• cache MUST update cached Warning headers when receiving a If-None-Match validation response; updating 5 1xx and 0 2xx multi-valued Warning header(s) (test_case/rfc2616/validationUpdates-Warning-ifNoneMatch-multi-5-0)
• cache MUST update cached Warning headers when receiving a If-None-Match validation response; updating 0 1xx and 5 2xx multi-valued Warning header(s) (test_case/rfc2616/validationUpdates-Warning-ifNoneMatch-multi-0-5)
• cache MUST update cached Warning headers when receiving a If-None-Match validation response; updating 3 1xx and 3 2xx multi-valued Warning header(s) (test_case/rfc2616/validationUpdates-Warning-ifNoneMatch-multi-3-3)
• cache MUST update cached Warning headers when receiving a If-None-Match validation response; updating 5 1xx and 0 2xx Warning header(s) spawning multiple lines (test_case/rfc2616/validationUpdates-Warning-ifNoneMatch-spawn-5-0)
• cache MUST update cached Warning headers when receiving a If-None-Match validation response; updating 0 1xx and 5 2xx Warning header(s) spawning multiple lines (test_case/rfc2616/validationUpdates-Warning-ifNoneMatch-spawn-0-5)
• cache MUST update cached Warning headers when receiving a If-None-Match validation response; updating 3 1xx and 3 2xx Warning header(s) spawning multiple lines (test_case/rfc2616/validationUpdates-Warning-ifNoneMatch-spawn-3-3)

Memberships

This test clause belongs to the following 1 groups:

• HTTP proxy cases involving caching (test_group/http/proxy-caching)

Internal Identifier

This test clause identifier is test_clause/rfc2616/validationUpdates-Warning. Please use that identifier when refering to this test clause.